Understanding 'honest signals' in business

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Pentland, Alex ^a,b   Heibeck, Tracy ^a,b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b Dept of Elec Eng and Comp Sci

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